This work summarizes the historian Xavier Castro with historical accuracy the characteristics of the Atlantic diet tracing their roots through the feeding history of Galicia, from the military era to the present detailed analysis of food and gastronomy in prehistory and the Antiquity, in the Middle Ages, in the Old Regime and in contemporary times. In closing, the author reflects on the values gastroculturales Galician style wrought and power "in a peculiar form of coexistence."